Portrait and biographical record of Clay, Ray, Carroll, Chariton, and Linn Counties, Missouri, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, Part 68

Author: Chapman Brothers (Chicago), pub
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman bros.
Number of Pages: 1316


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Upon this modest purchase, our subject pro- ceeded to build a little frame house. containing one room, which is now used for a smoke-house. For a full score of years, from 1860 to 1880, Mr. Welch and his family continued to reside in this humble home, when he built an addition. A com- fortable and commodious story and a-half house is now the family residence, and an excellent barn and good outbuildings attest the prosperity of the owner of the premises. Our subjeet owns three hundred and sixty acres all in one body, and also bas one hundred and twenty acres about two and a-half miles distant. Two hundred and forty acres of the homestead are under fine cultivation, and the remainder of the land is in pasture or wood- land.


Progressing financially, Mr. Welel also became one of the prominent men of the county, wielding strong influence in the town meetings and at the meetings of the School Board, of which he was -o efficient a member for a long term of years. Ile votes the Democratic ticket and is a valued mem- ber of the Farmers' Alliance. Many seasons have come and gone since, in Howard County, when our subject was a boy, his father was obliged to ride


Unto our subject and his wife were born two , thirty miles to a small mill,-the nearest and larg-


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est in the locality. Vivid are the recollections of Mr. Welch of the days when he could shoot two or three deer almost any hour without going be- yond the boundaries of the farm, and many times bagged his game from the very doorstep of the old home. With the vanishing of the scenes of early days, abundant prosperity has come to him, and in the evening of his career he can look with pleasure upon the accomplishment of the day-dreams of his childhood and rejoice in a life worthily spent.


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ANIEL TAYLOR formerly made his home on section 35, township 51, range 29, Ray County, and until his death was closely con- neeted with the best interests of the community. llis birth occurred September 10, 1802, in Pitt- sylvania County. Va. Ilis father, Obadiah. was likewise a native of the Old Dominion and was reared on a large plantation. the work of which was done by slaves. He married Miss Polly Choice. a member of an old Virginian family, and to them were born seven children. four boys and three girls, of whom our subject was the third in order of birth. Ile was reared to manhood in the fashion of all Virginia lads. living on the old homestead until arriving at his majority. He married Cindy Shackelford and settled on a tract of land of his own.


At the expiration of a few years Mr. Taylor. with his family, removed to Missouri and made a settlement in Ray County, purchasing a farm. where he resided until his death. To himself and wife were born six sons, two of whom were born on the old homestead. Daniel. the third in order of birth, is now living in Knoxville, Ray County; and the fifthi son, James, makes hi- home in Rich- mond, this county. The other children are de- ceased. The wife and mother was called from this life in August, 1832, leaving her husband with his six children on their new farm in the wilderness of the West. lle found a helpmate in the person of Miss Hannah. daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Creason. their marriage being cele-


brated December 28, 1837. She was one of eleven children, of whom three are now living.


To Daniel and Hannah Taylor were born eleven children, of whom one died in infancy and fouraf- ter reaching mature years. Mumford is a merchant in Orriek; Mary E., who is the widow of William Schooley, resides in Ray County; Lydia F. became the wife of Wesley Watkins, of this township; Louisa married James Blaine. of this county; Susan is now Mrs. John Paxton, of Ray County; and Jasper is a resident of Washington. Their mother was born in Boone County, Mo., and came with her parents when two years of age to this county. She is now sixty-six years of age and gifted with a wonderful memory.


Mr. Taylor departed this life September 9, 1886. his burial taking place on the eighty-fourth anni- versary of his birth. Ile left many friends. who deeply lament the loss of so worthy a friend and neighbor. He was a stalwart Democrat all his life, but never courted official honors. In his re- ligious connection he was an active member of the Christian Church, and always ready to assist a neighbor or help the needy. He was a man who had the courage of his convictions and never feared to speak his sentiments, on account of which during the war his life was many times en- dangered.


Mrs. Taylor remained a widow until November 4, 1890, when she became the wife of Abraham Luzadder, whose birth occurred January 15. 1531. in Ohio. Ile was the fifth in a family of eight children born to Isaac and Deborah ( Lawyer) Lu- zadder. He was reared on a farm and married at the age of twenty-six in Indiana. settling upon a farm near Indianapolis, where he engaged in agriculture for the following sixteen years. Ile enlisted in the Sixty-third Indiana Infantry, and during his service of three years participated in seventeen battles, among which we might men- tion those of Lo-t Mountain, Atlanta and Look- ont Mountain. Fortunately he never received : wound, and in 1865 was honorably discharged. Hle emigrated to the West in 1876. Ilis wife died in Jackson County. Mo., September 4. 1889. leaving six children to mourn her loss. Four of these are married. and all reside in Ray County.


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Mrs. Luzadder is a lady who has seen much of pioneer life, and is a woman of exceptional strength and endurance. She was truly an able assistant to her husband in the early days of his early settlement in this locality. She helped him to pile brush and elear the land. Their meat was largely obtained through their prowess in fishing and hunting, Mr. Taylor often going out before breakfast, and returning with a deer or wild tar- key for their meal. His wife was an expert in fishing, and when only twelve years old brought to land a catfish which weighed one hundred pounds. She sheared sheep and carded the wool, winch she spun and wove into eloth. She has often carried a sack containing three busheis of dried apples for some distance. selling them to | obtain groceries and supplies for home use. in the details of business affairs she has always dis- played good judgment and executive ability. She is courteous to strangers, and is beloved by all her neighbors.


G EORGE W. BURCHETT. a farmer residing on seetion 24, township 58. range 21. Linn County, makes a specialty of breeding Shorthorn cattle. His father, John Burchett. was a native of Virginia. Our subject was born in the year 1832, in Kentucky, in which State he passed his boyhood and youth. He removed in the spring of 1859 to Greene County, Mo., locating in Springfield, the county seat, where he engaged in freighiting merchandise, and also operated a farm in the vicinity for two years. Next. going to Hope County. Mo., he farmed there for a time, after which he engaged in the distillery business for a period of three years in Andrew County. Thence he removed to Carroll County, where he engaged in farming for a short time, afterward being employed in the same occupation in Phelps County for a year. le engaged in farming and breaking prairie in Clinton County and improved a good farm in Grundy County some years later. Selling this property. he permanently located in Linn County on the tract which is still his home.


After making a fair trial of a number of counties in this State, he has concluded that for agricultural purposes this is the best portion of the state.


Before leaving his native State, Kentucky. Mr. Barchett married Miss Nancy Ann Hyden. where father was a native of Tennessee. He was a farmer by occupation in Kentucky and afterward became a resident of Illinois and Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Burchett have had a family of seven son -: Richard Ttowell; Abram Sylvester, who is a farmer of this counts; Jacob. who follows the same calling in Illinois; George, a farmer of Linn County; Tilden. Benjamin, and Bee, who is engaged in agricu !- tural pursuits at home. Mr. Burchett is a Demo- erat in his political faith and is numbered among the progressive farmers of this region.


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E VAN D. GREEN is the editor of the popu- lar and ably conducted Hale City Times. lle was born in DeWitt County, Ill .. in 1854, and is a son of George W. Green, who is a native of Ohio. His mother bore the maiden name of Mary S. Woodward. and claims West Vir- ginia as her birthplace. By her marriage she be- came the mother of twelve children. of whom our subject is the fifth in order of birth.


At the early age of two years he removed with his parents to Missouri, which State has since been his home. They first settled in Chillicothe. where he acquired his early education in the public schools. After arriving at his majority, Mr. Green entered Columbia College, at Columbia. Mo .. grad- mating therefrom as a civil engineer in las0. At this occupation he was engaged for the she- ceeding four years, after which he taught -chool until 1887. Hle next purchased the Hale City Times, which is politically an independent organ. and which occupies a desirable position among the papers of the county. For the past five year- Mc. Green has made Ilale his place of residence. and has devoted his energies entirely to conduct- ing and editing the paper. It is devoted to the welfare and enlightenment of the people, and


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justly deserves the place it holds in the esteem of the intelligent people of this section.


In 1886 Mr. Green married Miss Ida Day, a daughter of Don Day, who was born in the Buck- eye State. Mr. Green is a member of Avalon Lodge No. 505, A. F. & A. M., and of Battsville Lodge No. 361. I. O. O. F. Politically, he is a member of the Populist party, and is alive to the leading political and national subjects of impor- tance.


OSEPH BRUCE. an energetic and success .. ful agriculturist. whose homestead is lo- cated upon section 16, township 53, range 32, Clay County, came to his present resi- dence twenty-eight years ago. and. buying the farm of one hundred and twenty aeres, all unimproved with the exception of about fifteen acres, has transformed the uncultivated land into a prolit- able harvest field. and now owns one of the finest pieces of farming property in his section of the State. Mr. Bruce has no remembrance of either of his parents, both his father and mother dying when he was a mere infant. Thomas and Polly Richardson took the helpless little habe and reared him through early childhood. The Richardsons lived upon a farm in the heavily timbered portion of Kentucky, and from his early youth our sub- jeet had to work both in the timber and in the open fields. He remained with Mr. and Mrs. Richardson until a little more than ten years of age, when the family became involved in domes- tie trouble, and. husband and wife separating, Joseph Bruce was again thrown upon the mercies of the wide world.


With his business abilities precociously devel- oped by the sad circumstances of his friendless life, our subject made arrangements with a neigh- boring farmer, who for his work would pay him $5 per month and his board. As he grew older he received more adequate compen-ation, and ar- rived at manhood a useful and intelligent citizen. In 1817 he formed family ties, being then united in marriage with Miss Nancy Moore. a daughter of


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Thomas R. and Jane ( Pitman ) Moore. The mother of Mrs. Brnice died when her daughter Nancy was about five years of age, and the father some time after married Mrs. Frances (Guthrie) Rains, whose first husband was Mr. Swan. Immediately snc- ceeding bis marriage Mr. Bruce rented a farm for one year, and at the expiration of twelve months rented a farm in Buchanan County, Mo. After " sojourn there of two years he cultivated land in Platte County for three years. and in 1865 came io Clay County and bought his present farm of one hundred and twenty acres.


Aside from the cultivation of the soil, our sub- jert has improved his property with substantial buildings, a commodious residence, barn and out- houses. The pleasant and happy home has been brightened by the presence of eight children, as follows: E. K .; Margaret. who married Henry Benson: Louisa. the wife of Albert Coleman: G. W .; Mary, Mrs. Victor Morgan; Price, Mrs. James Kimberlin; Fannie, who married Alex Kimberlin: and Johanna. wife of William Kimberlin. The brothers and sisters all ocenpy positions of influ- ence, and are among the useful and honored eiti- zens of the State. Mr. Bruce is a member of the Christian Church. whilehis wife is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Both are ever ready to aid in the good work of either religious organization. Politically, our subject is an active Democrat, and is deeply interested in local and national government.


INOR J. RUCKER, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Keytes- ville for over forty years. He was born in Greene County, Va., on January 5, 1829. His father, Minor Rucker, was a pioneer in that State and was engaged in agricultural pur- suits. He was reared and educated in Virginia and was there united in marriage with Mi -- Harriet Head. In 1837 he removed to Randolph County. Mo., where he purchased land and re-ided until his death, in 1868, when he had reached the advanced age of eighty year-, His wife departed this life


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in 1846, leaving seven children. of whom five are . principles of the Democratic party. Dr. Rucker now living: Joel is engaged in farming in Rau- dolph County; our subject is next in order of birth; John is a farmer in Indian Territory; James is a resident of Randolph County, as is also Martha, the only sister, who is the wife of June Williams.


Mr. Rucker, of this sketch. was nine years of age when he removed from the Old Dominion to Randolph County. Mo. He received his education in the common schools and in the Lost Cedar Academy. Concluding to make a study of medi- cine, he took a course of instruction under Drs. Grisward & Blakey. at Huntsville. Ile then en- tered the University at Louisville. Ky., where he continued the study of medicine, graduating from that institution in 1849. Returning to Huntsville, he engaged in practice for a few months. but in 1850 crossed the plains to California, where he found ample occasion for his medical services. In 1851 he returned to Missouri. and in the follow- ing year finally located at Keytesville.


The Doctor raised a company in this locality during the late war, of which he was made Captain. At the battle of Carthage he turned his command of twenty-five men over to Capt. Martin, and took the position of Assistant Surgeon of Burbridge's regiment, which office he held until his return home after the battle of Lexington. In 1864 he went to Carrollton, Ill., where he practiced medi- eine for one year, returning to Keytesville in 1865. With that exception he has been continuously en- gaged in practice at this point for forty-one years.


In 1857 Dr. Rucker and Miss Narcissa Givens were united in marriage. She is a daughter of William Givens, a leading farmer of Chariton County. To the Doctor and his wife were born six children, who were as follows: William: Jack- son, who is a resident of Keytesville; Walter. who is a tailor by trade; Annie, and Nina, who reside with their parents; and Harry, whose death of- curred at the age of sixteen years. The family are attendants at the Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. Rucker is one of the Ellers, Ile is much interested in the Masonic fraternity. belonging to the Ancient Free & Accepted Ma- sons. He easts his ballot for the nominees and


is a member of the Missouri State Medical As- sosiation. the Chariton County Medical Society and the Moberly District Society, attending their meetings and sessions regularly. He is resolved to keep in touch with the latest results of scien- tific research and all progressive ideas in relation to the treatment and prevention of disease. and to that end is a constant student of the best medical treatises and reviews.


ENRY BUCKSATH, an enterprising agri- culturist of Chariton County, is one of the prominent Republicans of this part of Mis- souri and is highly esteemed by the general public as a citizen of intelligence and upright char- acter. Ilis fine farm of two hundred and twenty- four acres is located upon section 25, township 53. range 19, and aside from this homestead, Mr. Bucksath also owns three hundred and sixty acres in township 52. Two hundred acres of the home farm are under a high state of improvement, and the remainder of the land is devoted to past- urage or is woodland. Our subject was born in Prussia in 1821, and received an excellent educa- tion in his native land.


The parents of our subject, William and Henri- etta ( Ruschhaupt) Bucksath, were Germans and were descended from a long line of German ances- try. Their union was blessed by the birth of seven children, of whom Henry was the eldest. The others are Katherine, Frederick, William, John. Maurice and Louisa. At the age of sixteen our subject emigrated to America, and landed in New Orleans, From there he proceeded to Indianapolis. Ind., in the year 1837. and made his home in that State until 1844, when he located in Chariton County. Mo., buying his homestead and entering with energy into the duties of general agriculture. Ilis capital was exhausted by the purchase of his land, but with thrifty management and incessant application to the tilling of the soil he was enabled to meet every obligation with promptness.


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Miss Sophia Stiman, who was also a native of Germany, but at the time of her marriage a resi- dent of Chariton County. Mr. and Mrs. Bucksath are the parents of eight children: William; Ed- ward; Mary, deceased; Henry; Amelia, Mrs. Will- iam Sasse; John: George; and Lena, Mrs. William Bitter. The sons and daughters occupy positions of usefulness and enjoy the esteem of all who know them. From 1861 to 1865. Mr. Bucksath was Captain of the enrolled militia and was faith- ful and efficient in the discharge of the duties en- trusted to his care. In 1866 he was the unanimous choice of the Republican party of Chariton County for State Legislator, but was defeated by the strength of the Democratic vote. In 1890 he was nominated for County Treasurer, but the . Demo- crats are strong in this district, and were again triumphant.


For a term of eight months, in 1862, Mr. Buck- sath served as Orderly-Sergeant during the Civil War and then returned to his home. He and his family are devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and active in the good works and benevolent enterprises of that religious organ- ization. Ever since his arrival within the borders of Missouri he has taken a lively interest in the management of the local and national affairs of his adopted country, and is an ardent advocate of the principles and platform of the Republican party. Mr. Bueksath owns property valued at $6.000 in Kansas City, Mo .. and is well to do. For his native ability, general efficiency and high standard of principle he is respected by the people of the vicinity. Although never forgetful of the home of his childhood. and remembering always the Fatherland across the sea, he is, and long has been. a true and patriotic American citizen.


the best educational advantages afforded by his State, then as now noted for the superior excel- lence of its private schools. seminaries and col- leges. Ile was prepared for college at Scott's Hill Academy and subsequently attended, in the order mentioned, Davidson College and the University of North Carolina. He entered the service of the Confederacy, but was twice discharged because of physical disability, a severe attack of acute hepa- titis having utterly unfitted him for the exposure of camp life. Ile studied law while at the univer- sity and was licensed to practice, but abandoned the profession, after a short but successful trial, for the more congenial pursuit of teaching.


Dr. Foy was associated in 1865 with the cele- brated D. S. Richardson in the Wilson Schools. In 1867 he removed to Stantonsburg, N. C., and established the Stantonsburg Classical and Scien- tifie Institute, which flourished greatly under his management for several years. Many of the men of middle age now prominent in journalism, med- icine and law in North Carolina were his pupils and received the inspiring impulses of their lives under his care. In 1872 he removed to Kinston. N. C., and founded the Collegiate Institute. This school became in a short time so widely known and so well patronized that drumming and adver- tising were entirely unnecessary as devices to pre- serve its complement of students. It was from its second year always full to overflowing. After several years spent usefully and profitably in Kin- ston, Dr. Foy accepted a call to the senior Princi- palship of the Wilson Female College, a school founded by the Rev. Di. Deems. now pastor of the Church of the Strangers in New York City. From this honorable post he was called early in 1878 to the pastorate of the Central Christian Church of St. Louis Mo. He resigned the charge in 18s Fand has since filled prominent pulpits as pastor in Omaha. Neb., Norfolk, Va .. and Columbia. Mo.


While in St. Louis our subject sprang at once into public notice and was regarded by the pre -- and the people as one of the leading divine- of that city. He received and declined during his pastorate there calls from Chicago, Denver. Cincinnati and other leading cities. From Col-


R EV. JOSEPH HI. FOY, D. D., LL. D., Super- intendent of Salisbury Academy, of Saiis- bury, Chariton County, Mo .. is a native of 5, North Carolina. He was born September 12, 1838, near Wilmington. the principal city of that State. Ile received as a boy and young man , umbia he removed to salisbury, Mo., with the in-


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tention of devoting the remainder of his days to the calling most congenial to his taste.


Opening the academy in the fall of 159! with an enrollment of sixty pupils, Dr. Foy matricu- lated during the initial year of the institution one hundred and thirty-four Students, of whom forty. live were cadets in the military department; and the opening of the second year has borne fatter- ing testimony to the excellence of the instruction received in the institution by a marked increase of attendance. The matriculation of the second year bids fair to approximate two hundred, at a similar rate of increase.


The academic staff, comprising seven teachers. is not excelled in enthusiasm or intellectual equip- ment by any institution of a like grade in the State. The school is publicly approved by the State University, and its reputation for solid work and strict but kindly discipline is co-extensive with the State. The academie currienlum is ali- vided into departments, each under the direction of a teacher carefully selected with reference to native talent, scholarly attainments and teaching tact. All of them are graduates from institutions of high standing and most of them wear the first honors of their respective "fostering mothers."


The academy is architecturally an ornament to the town of Salisbury, and since the completion of the elegant addition erected in the summer and fall of 1892 is inferior to no school building in Northern Missouri. To return again to the able founder of this institution : Dr. Foy has occu- pied a prominent position in the ministry of his church as well as in the educational world. He is a profound scholar, whose study and research cover a large field. In 1881. the University of his native State conferred upon him, "in recogni- tion of his learning and usefulness." the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in ESSI the I'niversity of Mississippi made him a Doctor of Laws. He is a man of apparently delicate physique but of tough and wiry constitution, or he could never have un- dergone the labors incident to his various pastor- ates in our great cities.


Our subject is beloved by his pupils and leave- in a large measure the task of bringing in recruits to their enthusiastic fidelity and partiality. He is


a married man with two children. both daughter -. one a physician of note in St. Louis. and the other a promising student of elocution in Columbia. Mo. Dr. Maude M. Foy. the eldest daughter. is proprietor and superintendent of the Mechanico- Therapeutic Zander Institute. of St. Louis. She i- also Professor of Gynecology m the Women's Med- ical College, regular. of the same city. She was graduated from the University of Buffalo several years ago with first distinction.




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